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Tires turned into graphene that makes stronger concrete

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Rice University scientists optimize a process to turn rubber from discarded tires into soluble graphene for composite materials, including cement in more environmentally friendly concrete.

Mar 29, 2021

Scientists use nanotechnology to detect bone-healing stem cells

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Researchers at the University of Southampton have developed a new way of using nanomaterials to identify and enrich skeletal stem cells -- a discovery which could eventually lead to new treatments for major bone fractures and the repair of lost or...

Mar 29, 2021

Electromagnetic fields of nanostructures visualized in 3D for the first time

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Researchers at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) and the University of Graz, together with experts from France, have succeeded in imaging so-called surface phonons in three dimensions for the first time. The research success could accelerate...

Mar 29, 2021

Method offers inexpensive imaging at the scale of virus particles

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Using an ordinary light microscope, MIT engineers devised a technique for imaging biological samples down to an accuracy of about 10 nanometers -- a scale that allows them to image viruses and raises the possibility of imaging single biomolecules.

Mar 29, 2021

New Nanotransistors Keep Their Cool at High Voltages – Perform Highly Efficient Power Conversion

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Power converters are the little-known systems that make electricity so magical. They are what allow us to plug in our computers, lamps and televisions and... The post New Nanotransistors Keep Their Cool at High Voltages – Perform Highly Efficient...

Mar 28, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: INBRAIN Neuroelectronics raises over �14M to develop smart graphene-based neural implants for personalised therapies in brain disorders

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INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, a spin-off company of the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2) and ICREA, announces a 14.35M Series A investment, co-led by Asabys Partners and Alta Li...

Mar 27, 2021

Nanotechnology Now - Press Release: DNA--Metal double helix: Single-stranded DNA as supramolecular template for highly organized palladium nanowires

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Nanowires are vital components for future nanoelectronics, sensors, and nanomedicine. To achieve the required complexity, it is necessary to control the position and growth of the metal chains on an a...

Mar 27, 2021

New class of versatile, high-performance quantum dots primed for medical imaging, quantum computing

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A new class of quantum dots deliver a stable stream of single, spectrally tunable infrared photons under ambient conditions and at room temperature, unlike other single photon emitters.

Mar 26, 2021

Plasmon-coupled gold nanoparticles useful for thermal history sensing

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Researchers have demonstrated that stretching shape-memory polymers embedded with clusters of gold nanoparticles alters their plasmon-coupling, giving rise to desirable optical properties. One potential application for the material is a sensor tha...

Mar 26, 2021

A bio-inspired mechano-photonic artificial synapse

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Multifunctional and diverse artificial neural systems can incorporate multimodal plasticity, memory and supervised learning functions to assist neuromorphic computation. In a new report, Jinran Yu and a research team in nanoenergy, nanoscience and...

Mar 26, 2021

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